From 96d47b5fc163c2edb515110ab00abe824308ac57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Woofenden Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:25:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] added install docs --- INSTALL | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 INSTALL diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0fed71 --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +This directory must be accessible to your PHP files vie the relative path: code/wfpl/ + +The recommended way to do this is to create a directory named "code" in the +main folder of your website. And make symbolic links to that "code" directory +from all directories in your website where you run PHP. + +Install wfpl within that "code" directory. + + + +INSTALLING METAFORM on apache + +metaform.php unfortunately has a couple extra steps. + +1) make a directory (named "metaform" in this example) for metaform. + +2) make sure code/wfpl is accessible in this directory (link to your main +"code" directory) as described above + +3) make a symbolic link to metaform.php called index.php: + +ln -s code/wfpl/metaform.php index.php + +4) make a file named .htaccess that looks like this: + +RewriteEngine on +RewriteBase /metaform/ +RewriteRule .*\.tgz$ /metaform/index.php + +Note: the above .htaccess file assumes that the "metaform" directory you +created in step one is in the root www directory. If it's in a sub directory +(for example you access it via: http://example.com/my/sub/dir/metaform/) then +replace the two occurences of "metaform" in the .htaccess file with the path to +that directory (for example "my/sub/dir/metaform"). + +5) If php can't write to /tmp then you'll have to fix the $tmp_dir in +code/wfpl/tar.php -- 1.7.10.4